Design and simulation of PCI Express physical layer

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed analysis, design and simulation of PCI Express Physical Layer. The Physical Layer isolates the Transaction and Data Link Layers from the signaling technology used for Link data interchange. The Physical Layer is divided into the logical and electrical subblocks. The paper designed Physical Layer in the system level with top-down design method and wrote the Verilog HDL codes to implement Physical Layer. Wrote testbench to verify the correctness of the design module for function simulation. The simulation results show that the designed Physical Layer meets the required of the function of PCI Express™ Physical layer Base Specification Revision 2.0.